"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. "--Pearl S. Buck

"Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing."-- Robert Burns

"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. "--Thomas Carlyle

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."-- Allan K. Chalmers

"If you do not hope, you will not find out what is beyond your hopes. "--St. Clement

"Hope costs nothing. "--Colette

"Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel."--Pierre Corneille

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."--Norman Cousins

"Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope."-- Abraham Cowley

"Hope is a strange invention- A Patent of the Heart- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. "--Emily Dickinson

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-- That perches in the soul-- And sings the tune without the words-- And never stops--at all"-- Emily Dickinson

"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. "-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope."-- Epictetus

"Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear. "-- Monroe Forester

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting. "--Benjamin Franklin

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."--Erich Fromm

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. "-- Barbara Kingsolver

"Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. "-- François de la Rochefoucauld

"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. "--François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived. "--Sophia Lee

"The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."-- Harvey Milk

"Every cloud has a silver lining, but it is sometimes difficult to get it to the mint."--Don Marquis

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. "--Mignon McLaughlin

"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. "--Herman Melville

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. "--Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who does not hope to win has already lost. "-- Jose Joaquin Olmedo